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Laura Mentore Academic Program Chair SALSA 2021

Laura Mentore: Program Chair 13th SALSA Conference

Laura Mentore Academic program chair Thirteeth Biennial Conference: Charlottesville (VA) XIII SALSA Biennial Conference – University of Virginia Charlottesville, June 24-27, 2021 Laura Mentore, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her primary areas...

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Nomination of Ricardo Lopes Dias as Head of FUNAI’s CGIIRC

Nomination of Ricardo Lopes Dias as Head of FUNAI’s CGIIRC (2-6-20)

[fullwidth_text alt_background="none" width="1/1" el_position="first last"] SALSA Statement Condemning the Nomination of Ricardo Lopes Dias as Head of Brazil’s General Coordination of Isolated and Recently Contacted Indigenous Peoples [/fullwidth_text] [spb_text_block pb_margin_bottom="no" pb_border_bottom="no" width="1/1" el_position="first last"] The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, an international scholarly organization composed...

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Wauja Summer Experience in Brazl

Wauja Summer Experience (2-5-20)

Wauja Summer Experience A collaboration with Indigenous scholars Purdue University and the Wauja community in the Xingu Indigenous Territory of Brazil are collaborating to offer an innovative, community-based ethnography Wauja Summer Experience. In this 6-credit, 3-week course, students live as guests in Wauja longhouses, participating in daily...

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